Arkansas plant board approves temporary dicamba ban to prevent crop damage

Faced with snowballing numbers of complaints about misuse of the weedkiller dicamba, the Arkansas state plant board voted to temporarily prohibit farmers from spraying the herbicide on soybean and cotton crops. The board has received more than 240 complaints of damage to crops caused by dicamba drifting from neighboring fields; the bulk of them have come… » Read More

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